RF magnetic induction pest controller for cabbage stem flea beetle control - commercial prototype

对于园艺和农业中日益严重的无脊椎动物病虫害控制问题，迫切需要一种负担得起的长期解决方案，而磁感应加热可以提供一种解决方案。虽然无脊椎动物是小型的不良导电体，但它们的导电性是植物的数百倍，因此感应加热速率相应更高。射频磁感应加热害虫控制（MIHPC）是一种创新的游戏规则改变者，独特地提供可持续的，具有成本效益和精确定位的一站式治疗，以取代广泛的杀虫剂和杀软体剂。MIHPC可以在不使用化学物质的情况下杀死植物内部的昆虫。害虫可以被迅速杀死，而植物不受影响。由于没有毒素，最大的好处将是它的目标特异性；在其狭窄的治疗范围之外，MIHPC是安全的；MIHPC适用于无人驾驶车辆，可以在任何天气条件下使用，害虫不会产生抵抗力。我们的团队已经在全尺寸上证明了MIHPC的概念，尽管该应用所需的频率和移动性远远超出了目前传统感应加热器的标准，开发了我们自己的开创性兆赫频率感应加热技术。这项为期18个月的实验室研究将测试封装电力电子器件的可行性，并为商业演示器构建射频磁场发生器，以瞄准冬季油菜（OSR）中的白菜茎跳蚤甲虫（CSFB）。暂停使用新烟碱类种子处理OSR在治疗CSFB方面造成了一个问题。随后，由于CSFB的损失成本和英国的种植面积减少了一半，农民很难从生产OSR中获利。因此，OSR的CSFB已被确定为我们技术的国际重要目标市场。MIHPC单元可以安装在机器人上，在任何天气和一年中的任何时间每天24小时工作。为了减少CSFB的数量，MIHPC使治疗幼虫阶段成为可能，幼虫阶段会进入茎部，然后造成广泛的损害。一株受感染的植物可能含有30多只幼虫，它们是潜在的目标。该项目是由一个微型中小企业和两个学者之间的伙伴关系形成的。它将努力推动磁性技术的发展，并产生有价值的全球知识产权。

There is an acute need for an affordable, long-term solution to the escalating problems of invertebrate pest control in horticulture and agriculture, and magnetic induction heating can provide a resolution. Although invertebrates are small-sized poor electrical conductors, they are hundreds of times more electrically conductive than plants, and so induction heating rates are proportionately higher.RF magnetic induction heating for pest control (MIHPC) is an innovative game-changer uniquely offering a sustainable, cost-effective and precisely-targeted one-stop treatment to replace a broad spectrum of insecticides and molluscicides. MIHPC can kill insects inside plants without using chemicals. Pests can be rapidly killed, yet plants remain unaffected. With no toxins, the big gains will be its target specificity; MIHPC is safe outside its narrowly-focused treatment-zone; MIHPC is appropriate for unmanned vehicles, can be used in any weather condition, and pests will not build up resistance.Our team has proven the concept of MIHPC at full-scale, even though the frequencies and mobility required for this application extends well beyond what is currently considered normal for traditional induction heaters, developing our own pioneering megahertz-frequency induction heating technology.This 18-month lab-based study will test the feasibility of packaging the power electronics and build a RF magnetic field generator for a commercial demonstrator to target cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) in winter oilseed rape (OSR). The suspension of the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments for OSR has created a problem in treating CSFB. Subsequently, farmers have struggled to profitably produce OSR because the cost of the loss by CSFB, and the area planted in the UK has been halved. CSFB in OSR has therefore been identified as an internationally significant target market for our technology. MIHPC units could be fitted to a robot and worked 24 hrs/day in all weathers and at any time of the year. In order to knock the CSFB population down, MIHPC makes possible the option to treat the larval stage, which tunnel into the stems and then cause extensive damage. An infested plant may contain over 30 larvae, and they are sitting targets. The project is formed from a partnership between one micro-SME and two academics. It will be pushing hard at the boundaries of magnetics technology and generate valuable world-wide intellectual property.